UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919

Source Information

Original data: British and Irish Military Databases. The Naval and Military Press Ltd.

About UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919

In 1921 His Majesty's Stationery Office published, on behalf of and by authority of the War Office, two lists of those who died during the Great War. One volume, packed with minute typescript, gave the basic details of nearly 42,000 officer casualties. It required an additional eighty volumes to list all the 'other ranks' who gave their lives. Each of the original volumes represented one or more regiments, corps or other units of the British Army. Most were subdivided into battalions or similar groupings. There were often thirty or more of these per volume, each in alphabetical order.

This database contains information extracted from these volumes and includes over 703,000 individuals. Information listed about an individual may include:

Name

Birthplace

Enlistment place

Residence

Number

Decoration

Rank

Regiment

Battalion

Type of casualty

Death date

Death place

Theater of war

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